A Groupe Mutuel study reveals the shortcomings of hospital planning, concluding that more than 270 patients die each year in hospitals because they are treated by doctors who do not perform operations routinely enough to achieve an optimal result

Muriel Furrer, an 18-year-old Swiss cyclist, has died; she was competing in the women’s junior road race at the world championships in Zurich yesterday, when she was badly injured in a fall

The Swiss voted on reform of the occupational pension scheme and on a biodiversity initiative; neither proposal was accepted at the ballot box, and the text were rejected with 67% and 63% votes against, respectively

Several kilos of explosives intended for “loosening blasting for the purpose of rock removal” were stolen from a Federal Railways construction site in canton Basel; the Attorney General of Switzerland has opened criminal proceedings

The city of Basel will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2025: the contest was born in Lugano, in 1956 and will return to its birthplace almost 70 years later